Calendar
| Jan 16 | Christine Restall "Progress in Fits and Starts" Christine has been a member of LQ for many years and will be telling the story of how she got to where she is as a quilter and professional textile artist. |
| Feb 20 | Sewing Evening, quilt displays and planning for the 2012 LQ Exhibition |
| Mar 19 | Jane Glennie "Discard:salvage – creating through upcycling" Recycling is inherent to much patchwork, Jane will explore upcycling unexpected materials that may otherwise be thrown away. |
| Mar 20 | Jane Glennie workshop "Upcycling" |
| Apr 16 | Pauline Burbidge "New Quilts in Progress" Pauline will talk about the development of her new studio quilts to be featured in a solo retrospective at FOQ 2012. |
| May 20 | Dawn Cameron-Dick - possible workshop. |
| May 21 | Dawn Cameron-Dick " Needles and Threads – a Love Story" Dawn will take a fun yet educational look at choosing threads, understanding machine needles and then putting them together in a match made in heaven. |
| Jun 18 | Gwen Hedley "Drawn to Stitch" Gwen considers line and its myriad differing characteristics especially the often complex lines, ridges, indentations, marks and divisions of space on the surface of beach pebbles and other natural sources. |
| Jun 19 | Gwen Hedley Workshop "Along New Lines" |
| Jul 16 | Summer Sewing Evening |
| Aug | No meeting. |
| Sep 17 | Diana Harrison "My Work" Diana's work explores the tradition of 'quilting' but goes beyond the functional or decorative. Her highly innovative work was featured in the 2010 V&A exhibition. |
| Oct 15 | Magie Relph "Ashanti Inspirations" Magie will talk about the fabrics of West Africa including hand-woven Kente cloth and hand-stamped Adinkra cloth which have been the inspiration for many of her quilts. |
| Oct 16 | Magie Relph Workshop "Kente the Patchwork Way" |
| Nov 19 | Maxine March "Comfort in Wartime: Canadian Red Cross Quilts" The story of the many quilts made by Canadian women during WWII, showing through samples the materials and techniques used and the impact they had on the lives of the recipients. |
| Dec 10 | AGM and Christmas Party. |
From 1st - 31st March we will be holding an exhibition at Swiss Cottage Library. All members are invited to exhibit a quilt.